USPTO Patents Application 10724302

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us " 472321 2

Feb. 2, 1988

Mindrum et al.

364/401

us " 4833308

May 23. 1989

Humble

235/383

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us- 4839507

Jun. 13,1989

May

235/381

/NB/

us - 4896791

Jan. 30,1990

Smith

221/7

/NB/

us- 491 0672

Mar. 20,1990

Offet al.

364/405

/NB/

us " 4949256

Aug. 14,1990

Humble

364/401

us - 4975960

Dec. 4. 1990

Petajan

381/43

us - 5012522

Apr. 30,1991

Lambert

382/2

mi

us " 5047614

Sep. 10,1991

Bianco

235/385

/NB/

us - 5056019

Oct. 8. 1991

Schultz et al.

384/405

/NB/

us " 5173851

Dec. 22,1992

Off et al.

364/401

/NB/

us " 5192854

Mar. 9, 1993

Counts

235/375

/NB/

us- 5227874

Jul. 13.1993

Von Kohorn

358/84

,/NB/

us - 5245533

Sep. 14.1993

Marshall

364/401

/NB/

us- 5283731

Feb. 1. 1994

Lalonde et al.

364/401

/NB/

us- 5309355

May 3. 1994

Lockwood

364/401

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us - 5353218

Oct. 4. 1994

De Lapa et al.

364/401

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us " 5380991

Jan. 10.1995

Valencia et al.

235/383

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us " 5420606

May 30. 1995

Begum et al.

345/156

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us - 5459306

Oct. 17,1995

Stein et al.

235/383

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us- 5500681

Mar. 19,1996

Jones

348/473

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us " 5581064

Dec. 3, 1996

Riley et al.

235/383

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us - 5595264

Jan. 21,1997

Trotta, Jr.

186/56

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us " 5612868

Mar. 18,1997

Off et al.

364/214

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trial

us " 5665953

Sep. 9,1997

Mazzamuto et al.

235/383

mi

us- 5707680

Jan. 13,1998

Moore

427/7

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us " 5708782

Jan. 13, 1998

Larson et al.

395/214

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us - 5710886

Jan.20,1988

Christensen et al.

395/214

imi

us " 571 5325

Feb. 3, 1998

Bang et al.

382/118

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us - 5822735

Oct. 13,1998

De Lapa et al.

705/14

us - 5905246

May 18, 1999

Fajkowski

235/375

us " 6184926

Feb. 6, 2001

Khosravi et al.

348/239

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us- 6278979

Aug. 21,2001

Williams

705/14

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us- 6298329

Oct. 2, 2001

Walker et al.

705/14

imi

us- 6301370

Oct. 9, 2001

Steffens et al.

382/103

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us - 6404900

Jun. 11,2002

Qian et al.

382/103

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us " 6408286

Jun. 18,2002

Heiden

705/408

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us- 60/369279

Apr. 2, 2002

Sharma

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N. KRAHNSTOEVER, S. KETTEBEKOV, M. YEASIN, & R. SHARMA, n iMap: A Real-Time Framework for
Natural Multimodal Interaction with Laroe Screen Disdavs " Dent of Como Science and Pno Technical Renort
CSE-02-010, Pennsylvania State University, May 2002

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E. OSUNA, R. FREUND, & F. GIROSI, " Training Support Vector Machines: An Application to Face Detection,"

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C. RIDDER, 0. MUNKELT, & H. KIRCHNER, "Adaptive Background Estimation and Foreground Detection
usino Kalman-Filterina" In Proceedinos of International Conference on recent Advances in Mechatronics

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H. ROWLEY, S. BALUJA. AND T KANADE, "Neural Network-Based Detection," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis
and Machine Intelligence, vol. 20, no. 1, pp 23-38, Jan. 1998

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R. SHARMA, V. I. PAVLOVIC, AND T.S. HUANG, "Toward Multimodal Human-Computer Interface."
Proceedings of the IEEE (Special Issue on Multimedia Computing and Communication) 86(5): 853-869, May
1998

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C. STAUFFER & W.E.L. GRIMSON. Adaptive Background Mixture Models for Real-Time Tracking. In
computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. 2, pp 246-253, June 1999

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M.H. YANG. D.J. KRIEGMAN, & N. AHUJA, "Detecting Faces in Images: A Survey," IEEE Trans. Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2002

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